Farewell then, to the DCEU and all that. Hello to the newly monikered DCU, James Gunn’s attempted transformation of Warner Bros’s DC comic book macro-verse into the very thing it really should have been in the first place: an interconnected web of superhero film and TV tales in which the only far-out, cosmic nuttiness can be found on screen rather than among the men in suits.
During a presentation on the Warner Bros lot in Los Angeles, Gunn and his creative partner, Peter Safran, suggested they, too, had been flabbergasted by the utter mess made of the DCEU by their predecessors over the past decade. “As everyone here probably knows, the history of DC is pretty messed up,” Gunn said. “No one was minding the mint. They were giving away intellectual property like they were party favours at any creator who smiled at them.”
